11.07.2008

Deleting or editing comments

Following a conversation with a friend, I did some research and found a series of blog posts addressing the issue of whether bloggers - and in particular, business bloggers - should edit or delete comments left on their blog.
Most seem to agree that if the comment is spam, offensive, pornographic or insulting, deletion is an entirely reasonable response.

As for me, I "approve" comments before they are published not because I want to control the message. It's just an easy way to ensure that I'll respond to all of them.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I haven't seen much talk about "editing" comments in general, apart from removing profanity. But I wonder how many brands out there make sure that their company name or products are correctly spelled, hyphenated or capitalized, or that poor grammar is kept to a minimum especially when blogging with non-native speakers for example. I think there's a fine line between policing the content, as "the David" seems to be doing, and making sure the integrity of your brand and blog - in the business context - is maintained.

James

ad said...

I did some more research today... Most bloggers seem ready to edit comments if they find grammatical or spelling mistakes, but I couldn't find anything about corporate approaches to editing comments.

I did find one woman, however, who has a comments policy --

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/17/comments-on-comments/